Established in 2014, cMDIS builds off its predecessor, the Center for Integrated Electronics. The mission of the cMDIS is to provide a unified voice among Rensselaer’s physical, chemical, and engineering sciences as well as to support excellence in existing research strength areas and promote new areas of intellectual discourse and research.

The cMDIS houses two prominent facilities. The Micro and Nanofabrication Clean Room is a state-of-the-art facility that supports research and education in microelectronics, energy, lighting, biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials science, and micro-electromechanical systems.

The second major center is the Nanoscale Characterization Core, which contains more than a dozen instruments to interrogate the structure and properties of materials at the atomic level and to understand their function at the most basic level.